landmark occurred in 1981, when Duffy Hooks launched the first West Coast rap label, Rappers Rapp Records, inspired by Sugar Hill Records in New York. Its...

West Coast hip hop's dominance. According to AllMusic editor Steve Huey, the success of his 1994 debut album Ready to Die "reinvented East Coast rap for...

East Coast–based rapper the Notorious B.I.G. signed by Puff Daddy and their New York City–based label, Bad Boy Records, and West Coast–based rapper Tupac...

song by a collaboration of prominent American West Coast hip hop recording artists under the West Coast Rap All-Stars umbrella, who assembled to promote...

1988), better known by her stage name Chanel West Coast, is an American television personality, rapper, singer and actress. She came to prominence for...

popularity at this time. West Coast hip hop was dominated by G-funk in the early-mid 1990s, while East Coast hip hop was dominated by jazz rap, alternative hip...

Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality...

account by American journalist and author Cathy Scott of the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The book made news upon its September 1997 release, on the...

is also well known for being a member of the rap supergroup Westside Connection with West Coast rappers Ice Cube and Mack 10. William Calhoun, Jr. was...

Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that...

Presents... The Aftermath is a compilation album by American and West Coast rapper Dr. Dre. It was released on November 26, 1996, as the first album...

lyrics of Ronnie Hudson's "West Coast Poplock" cover at Rap Genius "West Coast Poplock" at Discogs (list of releases) West Coast Poplock by Ronnie Hudson...

manager and businessman. He was best known for his management of West Coast rap and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E. He rose to prominence in the 1960s...

West Coast Rap - The First Dynasty, is a four volume album of the birth and rise of West Coast Rap. The First Dynasty series was produced and compiled...

Jamal, and twin brothers Taj Austin and Ras Austin (twin sons of West Coast rapper Ras Kass and R&B singer Teedra Moses). They are known for their choreography...

moving from electro funk and electro rap to gangsta rap. Now a legend of West Coast rap, he worked with rapper Ice-T in the early 1980s, then with Alonzo...

G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily...

known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless...

is an American rapper. Born in Compton, California, he initially released a series of mixtapes under the wing of fellow West Coast rapper JT the Bigga Figga...

spot on MTV2 and XXL's 25 Greatest West Coast Videos. It also achieved number 1 on the French MTV's "100 Greatest Rap Music Videos" in 2006. It went number...

[citation needed] In 2015, Rolling Stone named it as one of the 20 greatest West Coast Rap Songs released prior to N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton. After...

as the first Chicano rap album, and brought attention to Chicano rappers on the West Coast. Frost also established a Latin rap supergroup called Latin...

initially a largely East Coast phenomenon, by the late 1980s, hardcore rap increasingly became largely synonymous with West Coast gangsta rap, with artists like...

on top of electro rap music. The World Class Wreckin' Cru, which included Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, published the West Coast's first rap album to be released...

rapping at high speeds had existed in both East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop as well as abroad, it was not until the 1990s that chopper rap began...

featured in "We're All in the Same Gang", a collaborative single by the West Coast Rap All-Stars. Anthony Terrell Smith was born March 3, 1966, in Los Angeles...

August 2015. "Arabian Prince | West Coast Rap Artists | West Coast Rap Pioneers | Tribute to the Early West Coast Rap Scene: Website Title". Westcoastpioneers...

Compton, a landmark album that shaped West Coast hip hop's early identity and helped differentiate it from East Coast rap. N.W.A was also known for their violent...

fatherless, brotherless, state-assaulted, heavily armed West Coast urban youth" and Eazy-E's rap style as "a deadpan singsong...perhaps as much a result...

LuniTunes) is an American hip hop duo from Oakland, California, formed by West Coast rappers Yukmouth and Numskull. They were signed to Noo Trybe Records and C-Note...